Nige.Coll
Drone Bee
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2013
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- Location
- East Midlands
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- some + a few more
sry if i ramble as title.
went to the pub tonight and met up with some fellow beekeepers.
i'm the newest beek of the group but sadly not the youngest .
we had a laugh and talked about allsorts from varroa treatments to swarms.
one of the group has decided that this year instead of waiting for queen cells to be found they are going to split all hives and make sure all have eggs and let them sort it out " bees know what to do and the bees will do it if we provide the tools".
they also said the buggers always swarm when they are on holiday lol
you can't see any q cells but the little buggers are gone when they return
personally i am dreading q cells i'll age 5 years first time i see 20
i'll be on the phone to samaritans and they will probably hang up.
then i'll come here lmfao
great if it works i'll be doing it .
one thing that stunned them was i refuse to use apiguard etc.
i tried it last year and it nearly wiped out the colony i had just bought.
stopped the queen laying .
it turned out i had bought a weak nuc with frames added.. little gits still alive but the q is abdicating this year if she don't get her finger out.
i had open mouths when i said the only thing i use is OA and i don't drizzle it .
seems like vapourising OA is tantamount to witchcraft.
then it was pointed out last year we had snow now...
then we talked about starvation this year and a couple had been caught out and had a colony loss, one guy was really upset about his first colony had starved even after an emergency feed.
he had more but wasn't the point.
it turned cold quick bees in wrong place no food poof gone. within 24 hrs of spotting it.
bit scared by that if i'm honest..
rest of the time was spent talking absolute rubbish that was very amusing.
sry if this is in wrong place. drinking whiskey
no one or animal or insect was harmed in the making of this post.
i admit to killing a few pixels though.
damn i'll delete this when i'm sober
went to the pub tonight and met up with some fellow beekeepers.
i'm the newest beek of the group but sadly not the youngest .
we had a laugh and talked about allsorts from varroa treatments to swarms.
one of the group has decided that this year instead of waiting for queen cells to be found they are going to split all hives and make sure all have eggs and let them sort it out " bees know what to do and the bees will do it if we provide the tools".
they also said the buggers always swarm when they are on holiday lol
you can't see any q cells but the little buggers are gone when they return
personally i am dreading q cells i'll age 5 years first time i see 20
i'll be on the phone to samaritans and they will probably hang up.
then i'll come here lmfao
great if it works i'll be doing it .
one thing that stunned them was i refuse to use apiguard etc.
i tried it last year and it nearly wiped out the colony i had just bought.
stopped the queen laying .
it turned out i had bought a weak nuc with frames added.. little gits still alive but the q is abdicating this year if she don't get her finger out.
i had open mouths when i said the only thing i use is OA and i don't drizzle it .
seems like vapourising OA is tantamount to witchcraft.
then it was pointed out last year we had snow now...
then we talked about starvation this year and a couple had been caught out and had a colony loss, one guy was really upset about his first colony had starved even after an emergency feed.
he had more but wasn't the point.
it turned cold quick bees in wrong place no food poof gone. within 24 hrs of spotting it.
bit scared by that if i'm honest..
rest of the time was spent talking absolute rubbish that was very amusing.
sry if this is in wrong place. drinking whiskey
no one or animal or insect was harmed in the making of this post.
i admit to killing a few pixels though.
damn i'll delete this when i'm sober
